Great Lakes Connection

The Expedited Review of Plan 2014, the outflow management plan for Lake Ontario, has moved to a second and more expansive phase. The focus is now on the workings of the plan and possible changes.

Over the past two centuries, western settlement and the Industrial Revolution dramatically changed the water quality of the Great Lakes.

There are 18 nuclear power plants located on the shores of the Great Lakes in Canada and the United States, providing energy across the region. But what happens when these facilities come to the end of their useful life?

In the spring, many plants and animals in the Great Lakes return from migration or awaken from hibernation.

After two years of record-breaking water levels on Lake Ontario and the St.